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Kevin Bonds
Data Science Professional
Experienced Data Scientist with a strong technical background and a passion for leveraging industry-leading technologies to drive insightful and actionable business decisions. With extensive experience in data analysis, modeling, and data science platform engineering, I have a proven track record of delivering high-quality solutions to complex business challenges.
Education
Middle Tennessee State University
B.S Liberal Studies (Aerospace)
Murfreesboro, TN
2011
General Assembly
Machine Learning/Data Science Certification
San Francisco, CA
2017
Professional Experience
Data Scientist
Avast/Smith Micro Software Inc.
Berkeley, CA
2020-2023
Data Scientist and Data Science Platform Lead
- Design, plan, and construct a Data Science Platform
- Owner of workbench for experimentation and job automation using Python/R, AWS Kubes, cronjobs, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Lead designer of customer segmentation project
- A/B Testing
Sr. Business/Data Analyst
Macy’s Inc
San Francisco, CA
2018 - 2019
Lead Business Analyst/SME for marketing data migration project (IBM Coremetrics to Adobe Analytics)
- Perform data validation in support of data engineering efforts
- Design and POC methods for leveraging new capabilities (data connections, API’s)
- Acted as engineer to develop an API clients (JWT, OAuth 2.0, Curl, etc) using both R and Python
Sr. Data Analyst (Global Supply Chain Strategy)
Gap Inc
San Francisco, CA
2014-2018
Confidently interacted with senior leadership and provided subject mater expertise to the decision making process
- Responsible for reporting on multiple KPI’s as well as adhoc analysis
- Codified business logic into data attributes to support key business initiatives
- SME for data access and data availability for other Analysts, data scientists and visualization experts
Business Analyst (Agile)
Gap Tech
San Francisco, CA
2012-2014
Part of an Agile team working to develop and refine PO functionality
- Colab with BA’s and supply chain strategists
- Defined business context, story narrative, and acceptance criteria
Research Experience
Research Intern
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, AL
2009-2011
Publishing member of an inductance study to investigate pulsed-inductive plasma accelerators for In-space propulsion applications
-Fabricated test articles and design robust methods for capturing inductance measurements of various conical coil designs using Excel, NI LabView, and Igor Pro -Designed and constructed methodology for study of a mass flow sensor for a liquid bismuth-fed hall thruster -Created a fiber-optic based, IR temperature sensing system. Analyzed and reported on data and control mechanisms